Please, scroll up and read the posts before yours.
Revel in your ignorance, and seek to correct it.
I'm a lot more concerned about the trend I see with our government trying to control every aspect of our lives, for the so-called good of the people. Then you should see EXACTLY what is wrong with RealID.
RealID did nothing beneficial, but made it real easy for the feds to watch your movements.
How?
Make it a federal requirement for everything.
Alcohol? Scan. Cigarettes? Scan. Bank transactions? Scan. Anything they want a scan done on, they just ram through a federal law to require a scan of your RealID.
What purpose does this serve? Security? Gimme a freaking break. It does nothing but needlessly invade the privacy of every citizen of this country while providing ZERO security whatsoever.
It's a program that needs to die and STAY DEAD. Lest you be required to present your RealID any time a cop asks or risk arrest (federal requirements for travel between states you know, commerce clause and whatnot...)
Even modern editions of tannenbaum's OS book come with copies of (and the full printed source to) Minix. Just now it comes on CD and with a link to Tannenbaum's website for the latest editions of Minix.
Incidentally, outside of school it's still extremely valuable, unlike most books used in college...
Nah, it'd encourage them to produce more pop crap, since investing in something that might take a while to catch on would be risky.
Granted few of the modern big-names have been around 20 years thus far, but it'd definitely panic them and make 'em pickier than they already are (but not in a good way.)
If they wanted it to be truly restricted, they'd encrypt the database.
But I suppose you've never had a terrible 3rd party sync util (EphPod) go and fuck your iPod's database up on what was only supposed to be a read, have you?
They also happen to be thwarting attempts to sync iPods with software other than iTunes
They added a hash, that the firmware checked before loading. That was cracked fairly quickly and could have been much harder. Prove to me they did it deliberately and intentionally to remove other syncing utilities.
Of course it won't work on iPods, they're using DRM-out-the-ass WMA files that won't work on any OS but windows and players made by companies that bought into the Plays for Sure nonsense that not even Microsoft themselves use.
So it's free, so what. You get a combination of advertising and no control. I'll stick to my usual of buying CDs and ripping them to AAC, even if it means less music overall.
And if scaled up, cockroaches run at 800mph and fleas could jump over a mile. However, the increase in mass and energy requirements would make it impossible.
Small scale thrusters using only lasers is a good start, but we'll have to see what else gets bigger with scale, other than just the thrust.
The most common areas to afflict buyers with DRM have tended to be Europe and Japan, with the least common being the US. And yet it has all been met with such a poor reception all over that even AVEX TRAX, a Japanese label that was the biggest user of DRM on their discs during 2000-2004 have effectively given up. Every single disc that they could put it on they did, with a giant No-Copy logo sticker on it. And now they're all gone. Sony had a copy protection system they used and now no new CDs use it. In fact I just got two CDs, one released in '05 and one this year (weeks ago even) that are SRCL CDs that have the CD-DA logo on them.
So no, standards-corrupting CCCD technologies seem to have been rejected soundly. It's idiot plans like were executed by the US Sony Music heads that don't violate the standards but likely violate laws that need to be watched.
I'm sure many fans could edit a revised version of Star Wars episodes I, II, and III that is more to my liking!
So less actual creativity and more "this is my rehash of series X!" is to your liking. True, it'd probably happen seeing as how spending money on the unknown and new ideas is risky, I could see lots and lots of rehashes of existing material. Just look at all the sequels today.
people may be willing to pay for that further content, so that they can generate movie variants, derivative works, and so forth.
The directors and writers will probably oppose this, seeing as how they fight existing editing and alterations made by studios without their permission. They'd just explode if Joe Q. Random was allowed to completely distort what they had done.
In such an environment of unblocked creativity, my suspicion is that we would see work of higher quality.
You'd still be blocking creativity, by making it hazardous to release new and untested ideas. Artists won't stop making quality art, but there'll be far less of the new and truly interesting, replaced by rehashes of lots of the same.
It is obvious to the people you're speaking to, namely the readers of Slashdot.
It is the idea that people can own information that is the problem.
Indeed. That said, they got it right when they wrote the Constitution and we need to put pressure on the source of the problem, namely Congress, to fix it.
That much is obvious. However, bad copyright laws are not the problem, they are a symptom of our Congressmen showing far too much loyalty and giving much too great an ear to malevolent corporations like the RIAA and MPAA, and not thinking of the greater implications these laws have.
Once we can fix the political problem, then we can fix the damage done to copyright, both on the legal end and on the end of the users who show the creators no respect.
It's amusing to see all the people crying and bitching about the ACLU filing a suit in an effort to somewhat preserve our constitutional rights. Damn them for trying to protect what's left of the Bill of Rights.
Sure you want your car found IF stolen, the unwarranted tracking of innocent people be damned. What was it someone else said? Fuck the ACLU, if I were a cop I'd find their cases and shitcan them. The followup to that nicely pointed out that this is exactly why the government cannot be allowed to unilaterally track cases.
Government WILL abuse the system. And each one of you who criticizes the ACLU for attacking the system in the name of "convenience" and "safety" or "security" fails completely to understand the rights you have and why the ACLU does what they do. Just cause you're too blind or stupid to see the potential abuses doesn't mean they don't exist.
Copyrights do not expire due to lack of enforcement, only trademarks.
The case could easily be made that the violation was deliberately and intentionally obscured to make discovery difficult, and then the penalties could be even greater.
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So promotion is a bad thing? Oh wait, it's only bad when it's music -you- don't like.
Read up.
Please, scroll up and read the posts before yours.
Revel in your ignorance, and seek to correct it.
I'm a lot more concerned about the trend I see with our government trying to control every aspect of our lives, for the so-called good of the people.
Then you should see EXACTLY what is wrong with RealID.
RealID did nothing beneficial, but made it real easy for the feds to watch your movements.
How?
Make it a federal requirement for everything.
Alcohol? Scan.
Cigarettes? Scan.
Bank transactions? Scan.
Anything they want a scan done on, they just ram through a federal law to require a scan of your RealID.
What purpose does this serve? Security? Gimme a freaking break. It does nothing but needlessly invade the privacy of every citizen of this country while providing ZERO security whatsoever.
It's a program that needs to die and STAY DEAD. Lest you be required to present your RealID any time a cop asks or risk arrest (federal requirements for travel between states you know, commerce clause and whatnot...)
Even modern editions of tannenbaum's OS book come with copies of (and the full printed source to) Minix. Just now it comes on CD and with a link to Tannenbaum's website for the latest editions of Minix.
Incidentally, outside of school it's still extremely valuable, unlike most books used in college...
Nothing has a chance at compatibility with OOXML except the bloated crap churned out by Word and its ilk.
Driving to achieve closeness or compatibility with Microsoft formats, except as something kept at arms length, is essentially suicide.
Go, quickly.
Run to Microsoft's waiting arms, I'm sure they've got nothing but the best planned.
Nah, it'd encourage them to produce more pop crap, since investing in something that might take a while to catch on would be risky.
Granted few of the modern big-names have been around 20 years thus far, but it'd definitely panic them and make 'em pickier than they already are (but not in a good way.)
Well no. They'll require it on ALL PCs like they only support Windows and without TC you'll simply be unable to connect.
That's fun, you go eat your leaves and enjoy what you think is interesting.
Don't go drawing silly conspiracy theories and backhandedly painting yourself as superior simply because you don't enjoy things that other people do.
Considering that each redistribution is itself a copyright violation, as many as they can afford to.
If they wanted it to be truly restricted, they'd encrypt the database.
But I suppose you've never had a terrible 3rd party sync util (EphPod) go and fuck your iPod's database up on what was only supposed to be a read, have you?
They added a hash, that the firmware checked before loading. That was cracked fairly quickly and could have been much harder. Prove to me they did it deliberately and intentionally to remove other syncing utilities.
We see the rise of another doomed business.
Of course it won't work on iPods, they're using DRM-out-the-ass WMA files that won't work on any OS but windows and players made by companies that bought into the Plays for Sure nonsense that not even Microsoft themselves use.
So it's free, so what. You get a combination of advertising and no control. I'll stick to my usual of buying CDs and ripping them to AAC, even if it means less music overall.
And if scaled up, cockroaches run at 800mph and fleas could jump over a mile. However, the increase in mass and energy requirements would make it impossible.
Small scale thrusters using only lasers is a good start, but we'll have to see what else gets bigger with scale, other than just the thrust.
And when you stop paying you get no music at all.
I'd rather be forced to maintain my own collection and expand it slowly, then have to choose between everything and nothing on a monthly basis.
I doubt this statement to be true.
The most common areas to afflict buyers with DRM have tended to be Europe and Japan, with the least common being the US. And yet it has all been met with such a poor reception all over that even AVEX TRAX, a Japanese label that was the biggest user of DRM on their discs during 2000-2004 have effectively given up. Every single disc that they could put it on they did, with a giant No-Copy logo sticker on it. And now they're all gone. Sony had a copy protection system they used and now no new CDs use it. In fact I just got two CDs, one released in '05 and one this year (weeks ago even) that are SRCL CDs that have the CD-DA logo on them.
So no, standards-corrupting CCCD technologies seem to have been rejected soundly. It's idiot plans like were executed by the US Sony Music heads that don't violate the standards but likely violate laws that need to be watched.
Seems to me they said iPhone, not smartphone.
Smartass dickwad.
Of course you could always enjoy that WindowsCE development, as shitty and convoluted as it is.
So less actual creativity and more "this is my rehash of series X!" is to your liking. True, it'd probably happen seeing as how spending money on the unknown and new ideas is risky, I could see lots and lots of rehashes of existing material. Just look at all the sequels today.
The directors and writers will probably oppose this, seeing as how they fight existing editing and alterations made by studios without their permission. They'd just explode if Joe Q. Random was allowed to completely distort what they had done.
You'd still be blocking creativity, by making it hazardous to release new and untested ideas. Artists won't stop making quality art, but there'll be far less of the new and truly interesting, replaced by rehashes of lots of the same.
It is obvious to the people you're speaking to, namely the readers of Slashdot.
It is the idea that people can own information that is the problem.
Indeed. That said, they got it right when they wrote the Constitution and we need to put pressure on the source of the problem, namely Congress, to fix it.
That much is obvious. However, bad copyright laws are not the problem, they are a symptom of our Congressmen showing far too much loyalty and giving much too great an ear to malevolent corporations like the RIAA and MPAA, and not thinking of the greater implications these laws have.
Once we can fix the political problem, then we can fix the damage done to copyright, both on the legal end and on the end of the users who show the creators no respect.
And all you fuckers in the last thread that bitched about the ACLU are the ones that let this kind of shit happen. GRATS.
I bet you'd bitch if they filed suit over this law too.
It's amusing to see all the people crying and bitching about the ACLU filing a suit in an effort to somewhat preserve our constitutional rights. Damn them for trying to protect what's left of the Bill of Rights.
Sure you want your car found IF stolen, the unwarranted tracking of innocent people be damned. What was it someone else said? Fuck the ACLU, if I were a cop I'd find their cases and shitcan them. The followup to that nicely pointed out that this is exactly why the government cannot be allowed to unilaterally track cases.
Government WILL abuse the system. And each one of you who criticizes the ACLU for attacking the system in the name of "convenience" and "safety" or "security" fails completely to understand the rights you have and why the ACLU does what they do. Just cause you're too blind or stupid to see the potential abuses doesn't mean they don't exist.
It's not odd, it's just not what -you- would have done I imagine.
Some people feel it's more important to create something that gets used whether in open or closed source form than something be bound by an ideology.
Copyrights do not expire due to lack of enforcement, only trademarks.
The case could easily be made that the violation was deliberately and intentionally obscured to make discovery difficult, and then the penalties could be even greater.
Except it takes recursion to a level not approached by slashdot geeks. Even GNU cannot compare.